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I recieved the raspberry pi starter kit from adafruit for Christmas and i just cracked open the pack and started to play around with it.

It is overheating whenever i have the case on and I was wondering if this is normal. It shuts down within 1-5 minutes when the case is on and even shuts down randomly when it is out in he open air. Is something wrong with it?

No its not, I'm using the power supply from the raspberry kit from adafruit. Its mA rating is far above what the pi should require, and I checked with a multi-meter, the voltage is solid. Besides that it turns off with much greater speed with the case on than when it is off so I know it over heating. After several reboots I added a heatsink with thermal paste to the processor and it didnt help at all.